Improvement in mail-bags



THOMAS 1. L Anvlmml Mail Bags or Pouches.4

Patented Jn. so, 1872.

A2? am THOMAS J. LAMDIN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN MAIL=BAGS.

Specication forming part of .Letters Patent No. 123,113, dated January 30, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. LAMDIN, of the city of Baltimore and State ot Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Bags or Pouches, and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, and which represents one of the bags or pouches in perspective, with the bottom portion cut through to show the folds of the duck or material of which it is composed, and the manner ot' uniting them.

Mail-bags or ponches made of cotton-duck, and generally termed newspaper-bags, owing to hard usage, wear out at certain points-viz., at top and bottom-while the body ofthe bag is comparatively good and unworn. This wearing is caused by dragging the bag over the iioor or pavements or the ground while one end rests thereon.

The object and purpose of my invention is to strengthen and support such parts of the bag or pouch most subjected to this dragging and wearing, and thus make them last longer. This can be readily done at the top of the bag, but is very difficult to do at the bottom of the bag, as the tolds must be sewetl to each other, and sometimes through and through, which is not easily done with a closed Beside, to facilitate and cheapen the making up ofthe bag or pouch, it should be sewn on a sewing-machine, and this is quite dit'ticult to do under ordinary circnn'istances, and with a series ot' folds, or double thicknesses, or more, ot' cloth it will be found to be a very diiiicult thing to accomplish.

I have, however, overcome all the dii'iiculties in the way, and have produced a machinesewed mail-bag or pouch, thoroughly protected at its most exposed parts, and economically made, as will be explained.

The body of the bag, as shown at A, is of single thickness ot' duck. The ap at the top of the bag is furnished with the usual. staples al t c, which pass through the eyeleted or grummeted holes in the bag, and secured by a strap, B, and a lock, in the usual way. Where the iiap bends over the top ofthe bag,

and where there is much exposure and Wear, a leather re-enforce, G, is stitched onto the duck, and its ends b b project beyond the canvas so as to protect the canvas at the corners, and the re-ent'orce and the canvas are riveted together at or near said ends, as at c. On the bottom ot' the bag, which is two thicknesses of duck or canvas, 4 5, is riveted the strap D, by which the bag is sometimes dragged or handled, there being a similar strap on the tlap side of the bag at the top (not seen in the drawing) for a similar purpose. The chime E of the bag, which extends beyond the bottom portion, is made of three thicknesses of canvas-viz., 1 2 3-the inner fold 3 being sewn to the outer thickness 4 of the bottom, and the outer fold l passes up the side or body of the bag, as at d, whence it folds under upon itself', and terminates at e. The piece ot cloth or canvas making this portion ofthe bag, and marked 3 l d e, is of one piece, and stitched, as shown by the dotted lines. The lower portion of the body of the bag is composed otl 'four thicknesses of canvas, d f g h. The portions d j', which terminate at e, have been above described. The portion g is that which forms the body of the bag; and the portion h is a separate piece, stitched to the body-portion g at the line j, and to the inner thickness 5 ofthe bottom at the line fi.

The stitching at the lines 6, 7, S, 9, and 10 is what is termed through and through sewing, the stitches showing at both sides of the chime and bag and its bottom. The stitchings at the lines l1, l2, 13, and 14 are not through and through but only through parti'al thicknesses or folds. The side seams l5 `are sewn on the inside, so that any attempt to cut the stitches to gain access tothe bag, and to sew it up from the outside, would be readily detected.

A bag made and strengthened, as herein shown and described, can be readily stitched or sewn on a sewing-machine; and is, moreover,.easily sewn by hand, which is a matter of much importance.

What I claim in mail-bags or pouches is- 1. The re-ent'orce C, with its projecting ends b and riveted connection at c to the iiap or folding portion of the bag, as and for the purpose described and represented.

2. I also claim, in acanvas mail-bag or pouoh, the chime E, made of triple thicknesses of cauvas, folded, stitched, and united to the bot-- tom and bodyfrof the bag, substantially as de- Y scribed.

3. I also claim, in mail-bags or pouches made of duck or canvas, a. bottom, chime, and lower portion of the body, made, respectively, of

double, triple, and quadruple thicknesses of canvas, folded, stitched, and united together, substantially as and for the purpose described and represented.

THOS. J. LAMDIN.

Witnesses:

A B. STOUGHTON, EDMUND MASSON. 

